On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 14:10:34 +0000, john gennard wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote:
[...] > >Have you tried Debian Etch? I know Debian Sarge is a bit older and has > >much worse hardware detection than Etch. When I used Sarge nothing > >worked for me, but an upgrade to Etch fixed everything. I'm not 100% > >sure if just changing your sources.list and running # apt-get update && > >apt-get dist-upgrade would work though. I'd do a clean reinstall if > >possible. > > > I've got Sarge working without problem on three other boxes, in > fact I maintain that Debian is the reason I never significantly > increase my technical knowledge - it never freeezes or even > breaks down so by the time a new release comes out I've long lost > what little knowledge I had acquired. > > I had intended to go to Etch shortly (and by upgrade). I've plenty > of space on this hard disk, so I might as well install Etch from > scratch alongside Sarge and see if I get the success you did. If you want a quick way to get an idea about the current kernel and your hardware then you can paste your "lspci -n" output into the form on this website: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ This will list the drivers which are known to work with your devices. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
